Phoebe Lickwar

Phoebe Lickwar is an Associate Professor of landscape architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and founding Principal of FORGE Landscape Architecture, an award winning critical design practice.

Lickwar is co-author (with Roxi Thoren) of Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes, which describes the history of agriculture within landscape architecture and reveals the diversity of current design practices that use the rhythms and forms of agriculture to create productive farms that are also sites of beauty, community, ecological conservation, remediation, and pleasure. Her writing and photographic works have been published in the Journal of Landscape Architecture, Places Journal, and LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.

Lickwar is a registered landscape architect with over 15 years of experience in the design and construction of culturally significant gardens and civic landscapes, including the National World War I Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington D.C., the Newport Beach Civic Center Park, the Glenstone Museum, and the National September 11 Memorial in New York. She holds degrees in visual and environmental studies, art history, education, and landscape architecture from Harvard University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Rhode Island School of Design.